The Ottoman scramble for Africa : Empire and diplomacy in the Sahara and the Hijaz /

The Ottoman scramble for Africa : Empire and diplomacy in the Sahara and the Hijaz /

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Main Author: Minawi, Mostafa, 1974- (Author)

Format: Book

Language: English

Published: Stanford : Stanford University Press, [2016].

Subjects:

Hejaz (Saudi Arabia) > Colonization > History > 19th century.
Africa > Colonization > History > 19th century.
Turkey > Foreign relations > 1878-1909.

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Call Number: DR571 .M56 2016

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : old empire, new empire
  • Ottoman Libya, the eastern Sahara, and the central African kingdoms
  • The legal production of Ottoman colonial Africa
  • The diplomatic fight for Ottoman Africa
  • Resistance and fortification, 1894-1899
  • Transimperial strategies for an intercontinental empire
  • The local meets the global on an imperial frontier
  • Conclusion : the blinding teleology of failure.